Invited Speaker:

Simon Peyton Jones(Jointly with Types 2006)

The Symposium on Trends in Functional
Programming (TFP) is an international forum for researchers with
interests in all aspects of functional programming languages, focusing on
providing a broad view of current and future trends in Functional Programming.
It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research
results through acceptance by extended abstracts. A formal post-symposium
refereeing process then selects the best papers presented at the symposium for
publication in a high-profile volume.

The TFP symposium is the successor to the successful series of Scottish
Functional Programming Workshops. Previous TFP symposia were held in Edinburgh,
Scotland in
2003,
in Munich, Germany in
2004,
and in Tallinn, Estonia in
2005
(co-located with ICFP and GPCE). For further general information about TFP,
see http://www.tifp.org/.

TFP 2006 is an -affiliated event.

Call For Papers (Closed)

TFP submissions may consider any aspect of functional programming:
theoretical, implementation-oriented, or more experience-oriented. Also
applications of functional programming techniques to other languages may be
considered. See the call for papers for further
details, or contact the programme
chair.

Acceptance to the symposium is by extended abstracts of between 6 and 10
pages. Accepted abstracts are to be completed to full papers before the
symposium for publication in the local symposium proceedings and on-line.
Additionally, all TFP authors will be invited to submit revised versions of
their TFP contributions for post-symposium publication. These will be
reviewed to normal conference standards, and a subset of the best papers over
all categories will be selected for publication. Past TFP post-symposium
proceedings have been published by
Intellect in the series
Trends in
Functional Programming, and the aim for TFP 2006 is to do the same.

The programme for TFP 2006 is available
here.
Some details are still to be announced, but for the most part,
we do not expect any major changes.

Important Dates

Deadline for abstract submission:

17 February, 2006

Notification of acceptance:

3 March, 2006

Registration deadline:

17 March, 2006

Camera-ready copy of full paper:

24 March, 2006

TFP Symposium:

19 - 21 April, 2006

Student paper feedback:

31 May, 2006

Submission of papers for post-proceedings:

14 July, 2006

Notification of acceptance:

25 September, 2006

Co-Location

TFP 2006 is co-located with Types
2006 (to be held 18 - 21 April). To take advantage of the synergies
offered by these two complementary events, we will invite a number of joint
keynote speakers, hold joint sessions on topics of mutual interest, such as
dependently typed functional programming, and run common social events. The
schedule will be arranged so that participants may freely move between
parallel sessions of the two events.

Participants are kindly asked to register for their "main" event.
For those participants who are interested, specific co-registration
options (e.g. TFP proceedings for Types participants, extra
conference days for TFP participants) can be chosen on the registration
page of the main event in question.

Nottingham
is centrally located in the UK, and is easily reachable by all forms of
transport, see
how
to get here. The Jubilee Campus is about 30 minutes by taxi from Nottingham East Midlands
airport , which has direct
scheduled
flights to many European destinations. Those without a direct
flight should be able to make the journey with a single change, or may
prefer to fly to Birmingham, Manchester, London Stansted or London Heathrow
airports and then take the train to Nottingham. If you will be flying
to Nottingham please, book your ticket as soon as possible, as most of
the carriers are budget airlines whose cheap flights are very popular.
Online timetables and booking are available for most flights, via the
above links or try
amadeus.

We strongly encourage our participants to
stay in university accommodation on the Jubilee Campus, right next to
the conference venue, as we believe this will contribute to productive
social interaction
(campus map).
The rooms are modern and have a high standard.
Additionally, as the on-campus accommodation includes both breakfast
and dinner, the rate is very competitive.

TFP 2006 is an affiliated event of the
project of the European Union, which means that participants from APPSEM
sites and subsites can use funds from this project to cover their
participation; contact your site leader for further details.

The TFP Organisers are grateful to the APPSEM coordinators for making
this possible.

All residential delegats, i.e. people who have opted for university
accommodation, are staying in Newark Hall on the Jubilee Campus
(see map).
If you are a residential delegate, please make your way to Newark Hall
upon your arrival in Nottingham. A member of staff will be on duty until
1 AM to check you in. If you think there is a risk you may arrive
really late, after 1 AM, please let us know, and we will try to
make suitable arrangements to help you.

Note that dinner is included for residential delegates from the night of
your arrival, but please keep the dinner time in mind (see the
programme).